| A | B |
|---|
| acquiesce | to give in and agree peaceable |
| chastise | to scold severly or punish |
| augment | to increase; to make something greater or bigger |
| condone | to overlook or pardon an offense |
| amass | to accumulate, collect, to gather |
| disseminate | to disperse or spread everywhere as if sowing seeds |
| coalesce | to mix or come together from separate elements |
| concur | to agree; assent; to approve; to coincide |
| digress | to wander off course in speaking or writing |
| laud | to praise, commend, acclaim, extol |
| disperse | to spread all over |
| efface | to erase or obliterate; to wear away |
| banal | commonplace and stale, not fresh; boring |
| terse | stripped of all but the essentials |
| raconteur | gifted talker or storyteller |
| euphemism | the use of a "nice" word or phrase instead of an offensive or terrible honest one |
| succinct | brief, to the point |
| hackneyed | overused |
| bombast | high-flown, pompous, "windbag" language |
| articulate | to speak in a clear, effective way |
| laconic | using as few words as possible |
| hyperbole | wild exaggeration |
| lampoon | verbal ridicule of a person |
| platitude | a tired, trite old saying |
| despot | a ruler with total control |
| sycophant | a brownnoser |
| glutton | one who is overly, almost sinfully, hungry for something, usually food |
| hedonist | someone who lives for pleasure or happiness |
| hypocrite | one who pretends to a life or beliefs that he doesn't honestly have |
| heretic | one who differs from accepted belief or theory |
| charlatan | a quack or fraud |
| bigot | one who stubbornly holds to his own opinions |
| miser | a greedy, grasping person |
| insurgent | a rebel |
| zealot | a fanatic; someone devoted beyond reason toa cause or belief |
| skeptic | one who doubts or waits to pass judgment |
